Hello friends, family, and strangers (I flatter myself)!I am a recently-graduated girl finding my way in the "real world" (apparently, I've been floating around the fake world for the past two decades).Many of my friends' "real world"s consist of cubicles, nine-to-fives, marriage, babies, and other such grown-up things.My real world looks a little different.Yes, I still get up and go to work every morning, same as they do.But instead of battling fax machines, computer programs, disgruntled spouses and dirty diapers, I arm myself against a legion of 14-year-old boys.Well, 83 of them to be exact.You see, I teach 8th-grade boys' Science in an inner-city, high-poverty school.What it is not: glamorous, prestigious, boring.What it is: humorous, heartbreaking, and the most challenging thing I will ever do.
The stories I tell and the people I describe are real; you can't make this stuff up.If you are new to my blog, I hope you'll start at the beginningand fall in love with its characters, just as I have.
Friday, September 11, 2009
And another rap...
"Ms. M know I love her; she my baby girl.
She ain't just my teacher, she my whole wide world.
I love this one. Keep on keeping on. I talked to Susan 6 times tonight during the Alabama game. I had it on the radio and she got to hear Eli for a few minutes. She was at the Auburn apt. watching the Auburn game at 7 in the morning eating pancakes and drinking COFFEE, not YELLOW HAMMERS. And for some unknown reason this still thinks I"m Catherine but it's Suey's mom. Come stay with me for the Auburn Alabama game!!
omg. i only wish i could have experiences like that, alas, i only tutor LaMariah, a girl in 7th grade in tuscaloosa.
i have many stories to tell you about that, mostly not appropriate for the internet.
last night i watched the game at the G. i saw jared and he held me as i cried out of sheer depression/enthusiasm of remembering 705 and how could we have ever been so lucky and not even known it. reunion soon? hopefully at my wedding!
I love this one. Keep on keeping on. I talked to Susan 6 times tonight during the Alabama game. I had it on the radio and she got to hear Eli for a few minutes. She was at the Auburn apt. watching the Auburn game at 7 in the morning eating pancakes and drinking COFFEE, not YELLOW HAMMERS. And for some unknown reason this still thinks I"m Catherine but it's Suey's mom. Come stay with me for the Auburn Alabama game!!
ReplyDeleteomg. i only wish i could have experiences like that, alas, i only tutor LaMariah, a girl in 7th grade in tuscaloosa.
ReplyDeletei have many stories to tell you about that, mostly not appropriate for the internet.
last night i watched the game at the G. i saw jared and he held me as i cried out of sheer depression/enthusiasm of remembering 705 and how could we have ever been so lucky and not even known it. reunion soon? hopefully at my wedding!